Anandtech was able to score a second session with Intel's Conroe and an overclocked AMD FX-60. Some concerns and issues were raised concerning the first test, so Anand addresses them with this update.

The performance picture with regards to Conroe
hasn’t really changed all that much - on average we’re still seeing a
bit over a 20% increase in performance over an overclocked Athlon 64
FX-60. While it’s worth noting that these results should be taken with
a grain of salt, we really were not able to determine any cause for
suspicion based on Intel’s setups. The machines were as clean as they
could get, with the BIOS oversight having no tangible impact on most
performance.

After this second round of tests, there doesn't appear to be anything malicious or underhanded going on Intel's part. The BIOS had little to no effect on performance and the Conroe still comes out on top. Now all we have to do is wait for AM2 Athlons.

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I only can add that thank god Intel is up in its game again otherwise we would be running sucky hardware until the day we die, now at least we can see some competition and perhaps see more significant technological improvements come out faster, I mean who doesnt want to run a Quad-Core DDR3 based computer. LOL